This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman

Jeff Wilson · 20 Feb 2011, 02:40 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:40:38 -0600
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman
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On 2/19/2011 11:59 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I other words I think:
>
> <Terminus Est> : <Sev's language> :: Latin : English
> <language Thea mentions> : <Sev's language> :: <really ancient language>
> : English
>
> The language Thea mentions is clearly present-day English. So the
> timeline is like:
>
> <really ancient language> (not mentioned(
> -----
> -----
> <Latin> (not mentioned)
> <English> (referenced by Thea)
> -----
> -----
> <'Terminus Est' language> (translated to Latin by Gene Wolfe)
> <Severian's language> (translated to English by Gene Wolfe)

Isn't it fairly likely that some of the sundial mottoes are actually 
Latin, though?



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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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